Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), who just last week denounced the
Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for
issuing a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to provide additional
testimony about his Russian contacts during the 2016 campaign,
conceded on Wednesday he would be open to hearing from the
president’s eldest son. But, he added, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
should then focus on the question he deems more important: why
there was a Russian investigation at all.

The abrupt change of heart comes as Republicans ramp up their
calls for a sham investigation into baseless allegations that
the Trump campaign was illegally or improperly wiretapped or
otherwise spied on at the direction of his predecessor,
President Barack Obama. Despite repeatedly answering about the
origins of its inquiry, the intelligence community has yet to
convince Republicans that the investigation into Russian
interference was rooted in hard evidence.

McClintock, who sits in the minority on the House Judiciary
Committee, complained in a Fox News on
Saturday that the GOP-controlled Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence had subpoenaed the president’s son — a move that
undermined attempts by President Trump and Congressional
Republicans to (falsely) spin Robert Mueller’s report as a
complete and total vindication of alleged illegal foreign
coordination and obstruction of justice. “I don’t understand
Richard Burr at all,” he griped, suggesting that instead of
continuing to do oversight on “the most investigated
administration in the history of the country,” Senate
Republicans should instead by investigating why the previous
administration began examining Trump’s Russian ties to begin
with.

But a day after Donald Jr. agreed to comply with the subpoena,
McClintock told CNN that there was ample reason to re-interview
him about clear inconsistencies between his earlier testimony
and other witnesses.

“They do have the right to do that,” McClintock conceded. “If
there are questions over discrepancies between his recollection
and others, I’ve got no problems with resolving those
discrepancies, I just hope that the intelligence committee is
also using it’s time to look into the activities of the
intelligence agencies, the CIA and the NSA in promoting what
they knew was a phony dossier that created a false narrative
over the president’s conduct.”

Pressed as to whether he now believed a follow-up interview to
be legitimate, he affirmed that he did. “As I said, there’s
nothing wrong with that. They should resolve any discrepancies
in testimonies.”

After months of pressure from the president and Congressional
Republicans, Trump’s handpicked attorney general, William Barr,
announced this week that he has appointed a federal prosecutor
to look into why the Russian investigation began.

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